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Queen kold Madina

New Orleans, LA | Established. Jan 01, 2003

New Orleans, LA
Established on Jan, 2003
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"Songs up for Academy Award"

Song up for Academy Award - Variety


"Trouble the Water"

Kimberly's star power comes from the music she writes and sings, music that was almost lost in the storm. The moment in the aftermath when she finds it and raps about her feelings will knock you off your feet. At the Sundance Film Festival in January, when the film premiered, that moment got audiences standing and cheering. Never mind Katrina, Kimberly Roberts is the real force of nature.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/trouble-the-water-20080821#ixzz27PcTFVEF - Rolling Stone Magazine


"Trouble the Water"

Kimberly's star power comes from the music she writes and sings, music that was almost lost in the storm. The moment in the aftermath when she finds it and raps about her feelings will knock you off your feet. At the Sundance Film Festival in January, when the film premiered, that moment got audiences standing and cheering. Never mind Katrina, Kimberly Roberts is the real force of nature.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/trouble-the-water-20080821#ixzz27PcTFVEF - Rolling Stone Magazine


"Sundance: A Star is Born"

Her name is Kimberly Rivers Roberts. Your never heard of her. Not yet. That's what Sundance is all about — finding new talent, such as Lance Hammer, the writer and director of Ballast Kimberly's star power comes from the music she writes and sings, music that was almost lost in the storm. The moment in the aftermath when she finds it and raps about her feelings will knock you off your feet. Here at Sundance, that moment gets audiences standing and cheering. Never mind Katrina, Kimberly Roberts is the real force of nature. Want more proof? Last night, I visited Kimberly and Scott at the condo where they're staying for the festival's duration. Kimberly was enjoying everything about the experience. What's remarkable is that after Trouble he Water premiered to ovations on Sunday night, the pregnant Kimberly's water broke. Rushed at midnight in a snowstorm to a Utah hospital in nearby Salt Lake City, she gave birth to daughter Skyy (that's right, two ks) on Martin Luther King day. "I guess drama just follows us around," she said with a laugh.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/blogs/the-travers-take/sundance-a-star-is-born-20080125#ixzz27PbHNxxl - Rolling Stone Magazine


"Sundance: A Star is Born"

Her name is Kimberly Rivers Roberts. Your never heard of her. Not yet. That's what Sundance is all about — finding new talent, such as Lance Hammer, the writer and director of Ballast Kimberly's star power comes from the music she writes and sings, music that was almost lost in the storm. The moment in the aftermath when she finds it and raps about her feelings will knock you off your feet. Here at Sundance, that moment gets audiences standing and cheering. Never mind Katrina, Kimberly Roberts is the real force of nature. Want more proof? Last night, I visited Kimberly and Scott at the condo where they're staying for the festival's duration. Kimberly was enjoying everything about the experience. What's remarkable is that after Trouble he Water premiered to ovations on Sunday night, the pregnant Kimberly's water broke. Rushed at midnight in a snowstorm to a Utah hospital in nearby Salt Lake City, she gave birth to daughter Skyy (that's right, two ks) on Martin Luther King day. "I guess drama just follows us around," she said with a laugh.

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/blogs/the-travers-take/sundance-a-star-is-born-20080125#ixzz27PbHNxxl - Rolling Stone Magazine


"Kimberly Rivers Roberts as herself in Trouble the Water - The Top 10 Everything of 2008"

"Katrina, she's a bad chick," observes Kim Rivers, 24, an aspiring rap artist (Black Kold Madina) and unassuming real-life heroine. In August 2005, as the awful hurricane battered New Orleans, Kim and her husband Scott Roberts saved lives by bringing flood victims to the attic of their house in the Ninth Ward. She is also ...


Read more: http://search.time.com/results.html?N=0&Nty=1&p=0&cmd=tags&srchCat=Full+Archive&Ntt=kimberly+roberts+%234#ixzz27PZ71w8d - Time Magazine


"Trouble the water Rapper,Kimberly Rivers-Roberts reads her CD"

The cameras were rolling when she found the CD at her cousin’s house. In the scene, she puts it on a boom box, then starts rapping live to the song “Amazing,” an assertive expression of self-confidence and resilience that gains resonance following all she and her family had to withstand.

There was no soundtrack album with the film, so she’s issuing it on her own, working to capitalize on the exposure the film has brought to her and her music. "Amazing" and three others can be streamed on her website. Most of her material carries messages of empowerment, without soft-pedaling the injustice experienced by so many during the storm and after those troubled waters subsided.

“Music, like, freed me and gave me understanding,” Roberts said. “A lot of times. I felt lost. and I’d go to a certain song, and it’d give me wisdom. Man, I love music. I got a lot of guidance from music.” - LA Times


"Riders of the storm"

Trouble the water is about how we gtew up poor but rose aboe that to help lots of people.And it's also about how the US.government failed it's poor black citizens. - Source Magazine


"What I've learned wisdom from all 50 states"

When fear steps in you are lost you are beat,you can't even think. - Esquire


"Soul Survivors"

The correspondent is Kimberly Rivers-Roberts and she is not just a journalist but an aspiring rapper who calls herself Black Kold Madina.In Kim they found a person who symbolized both the lower depths of urban life and the resilience,when faced with an impossible challenge to rise to a level higher then flood tide. Maybe Kim Scott and their crew were no angels before Katrina,but in Trouble the water,we see the lives of Saints. - Time Magazine


"UP LIFTING TALE BORN OF RISING FLOODWATER"

Kimberly Roberts an aspiring Rapper when she sings she gives a voice to there pain. - New York Post


"The New New Orleans"

Kim and Scott as a counterintuitive man-bites-dog story: the storm visits every conceivable misfortune on them but their lives wind up evidently transformed for the better. Before Katrina, they are quasi criminals; after, they are clean and sober, politically active, and pursuing musical careers. That may just be their luck, and it may just be temporary. In no way does Trouble the Water present a misleadingly positive picture of the condition of New Orleans; toward the end there is a very funny (because it resists the temptation to be heavily sarcastic) segment about the bouncy, patently false promotional materials being prepared by the local board of tourism.

Still, five and a half years after the storm, there is something inspiring about seeing people in New Orleans simply getting on with their lives, despite all the reasons this shattering experience has given them to succumb to bitterness or despair. That’s what thousands and thousands of people in New Orleans have done. They’re not defeated. They inhabit their city. They don’t have many illusions about how things have gone or how they’re likely to go now, and there is honor—even hope—in the choice they have made.
- The New York Review of books


"Don't Miss this Doc"

Trouble the water. Our Brush with Hurricane Gustav makes this sobering documentary about Hurricane Katrina and our government's shameful response punctuated with harrowing footage taken by a New Orleans couple as Katrina ravages their neighborhood-even more poignant.You'll be outraged all over again. - People Magazine


"Wading in the Water"

Through her music she has become a voice for change as Rapper Black Kold Madina. - Data News Weekly


"Trouble the water"

The film is about Katrina, and even more about the human spirit. Kimberly and her husband, Scott, are the life force personified: smart, funny, undefeated, indignant, determined. Kimberly sings three songs on the soundtrack. We see her performing one of them. That scene reportedly won a standing ovation at Sundance 2008, where the film won the Grand Jury Prize as best documentary. - Roger Ebert.com


"High water Rising"

Kimberly Rivers-Roberts and aspiring Rapper started her own record label Born Hustler Records - Good Magazine


"Locally linked films in running for best song Oscar"

In the case of "Trouble the Water," the title song was recorded by a local artist, Kimberly Rivers Roberts, who is a focus of the film and performs under the stage name Black Kold Madina. (Have a listen for youself at her Web site, Born Hustler Records.Both "Trouble the Water" and "Fuel" are also on the Academy's short list in the Best Documentary Feature category.

Other films with local connections on the list include "Rachel Getting Married," "Cadillac Records" and "Dark Streets." - NOLA .COM


"Surviving Katrina with a Big Personality"

Though her street savvy helped her survive natural and unnatural disasters, it was a familiar love of the camera that turned Ms. Roberts, an aspiring musician, into a documentary star. (That’s her rapping over the final credits under her hip-hop name, Black Kold Madina.) As it does for a lot of young Americans — she is 24 when the movie opens — being in front of a camera seems perfectly natural to her, something close to a generational birthright. (By MANOHLA DARGIS) - New York Times


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QUEEN KOLDMADINA

Delivering hard-hitting CLUB BANGERS from her soul to yours, New Orleans icon Queen Kold Madina  is making headlines again, this time with her brand new Single WIDE OPEN featured on her sophomore LP, FEAR NO GUMBO. Most recently feature on Beyonce (FORMATION)  and opening acts for artist YOUNG JEEZY and MONEY BAG YO. Queen Koldmadina is the star of Trouble the Water, an influential, ground breaking documentary on Hurricane Katrina, is back and rising to the top of the music scene, serving up an infectious blend of heavy duty beats, truthfully raw rhymes mixed with that southern hip-hop swag.

Madina wrote, recorded and produced four original songs for the film, which would eventually be featured on her debut album of the same name.  The title track Trouble the Water left a lasting impression of her rapping and writing prowess, receiving an Oscar nomination for Best Original Song in a Film, while the movie itself was also nominated for Best Documentary Feature.

Rolling Stone's Peter Travers interviewed  Queen Blackkoldmadina at the  Sundance Film Festival and reported that a star is born . According to Travers, "Kimberly's star power comes from the music she writes and sings. "A glory abides in Kimberly's voice," said Travers. 
"Queen Black Kold Madina" her music, and her story have also been written about in Vibe, Essence, Ebony, Jet, Sister to Sister, Source,Giant,New York Times,L.A Times,Off Beat,Spin Time Out and Good Magazine.
She's represents her state of Louisiana and was quoted in Esquire's "Meaning of Life"   

After hitting the studio with a fresh clip of tracks and a new library of lyrics, Queen Koldmadina is prepared to unleash her latest creation, FEAR NO GUMBO album onto the unsuspecting ears of the world. Her single  WIDE OPEN will lead the charge. Produced by the Queen and JAMALL PRODUCTIONS.WIDE OPEN is the ultimate  CLUB BANGER and booty shaking JOINT. The song is the ultimate expression of a WOMAN SEXUALITY in freedom and power and love for WOMEN HOOD!  In other words the Queen is in love with HER FEMININE POWER and express that throughout the song!

The full record will hit stores in EARLY 2018  Plans are also underway for an accompanying music videos and tours, while she continues to promote her homegrown Born Hustler Records label.

Streaming audio, press, pictures and video clips are all available on the official Born Hustler Records website, and fans can connect with Madina via her Facebook, Twitter Instangram and sound cloud pages. With an incredible, memorable blend of artistic talent and street-smart hip hop intuition, this is one woman no one will forget. 

In her career thus far she has had success in music and documentary film world.

WINNING THE

Sundance GRAND JURY prize

Full Frame GRAND JURY prize winner

GOTHAM INDIE FILM award winner
AFI/Silverdocs special Jury Prize winner

2008 Council on Foundation Henry Hampton award for excellence in film and digital media winner
working films award winner

Kathleen Bryan Human rights award winner

Official selection New Directors/New films (museum of modern arts and film society of Lincoln center)

Trouble the water Named best documentary by the film critics association and alliance of women film journalists

NAACP Image award nomination

Producers Guild of America for feature Documentary (nomination)

Roger Ebert Golden Thumb award winner

Harry Chapin media award winner

Trouble the water has been named #9 in the top 20 documentaries that you should see before you die

Time magazine named Kimberly Rivers-Roberts 4th best performance of 2008

Kimberly was honored in  by the Female Hip-Hop Awards for her work as a Rap-artist, humanitarian and for her work in Trouble the water.

"Trouble the water" the song was written produced and performed by "Queen Blackkold Madina" also nominated for an Academy Award.

Ms.Roberts was voted Trail Blazer of the month by the Louisiana Data weekly and honored as Trail Blazer of the Year.

Queen Madina also co-starred in HBO's TREME as Devina's friend in mutiple episodes,including in the fall seasons new episodes.

Also starring in NBC's "My first time Oscar's and

recently in WE's "Wedding Chapel.

In addition to starring in the film, Kimberly produced, wrote, and composed four songs that were featured in the Oscar-nominated film, including her hit song "Amazing", which is undoubtedly the heart of the movie.

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